I have a Desktop PC that has archived shows with a wired connection to my Tivo Premiere XL. I have the PC set to go into sleep mode after a while (saving the Earth -you're welcome) which should be fine. I wiggle a wireless mouse near my TV in the other room, and the PC wakes up.
I'm using Tivo desktop and for some reason, the woken computer doesn't show up on the Tivo "Now PLaying" screen unless I manually go to my PC and click "pause server", and then re-start it. Then it shows up instantly. But I'm curious if there's any way to not have to restart the Tivo server after sleep mode on the PC for it to show up in my Now Playing list.

Thoughts? Comments? Insults?
BTW - I've tried alternatives, and Tivo Desktop is the best software for me - so kmttg is not a solution.

If you have Windows 7 you can do some pretty tricky things with Task Scheduler by creating a task that's triggered by specific events. Look through your event logs for the specific source and event ID that happens when your PC wakes up, then create a task that would run a batch file.

I have a Desktop PC that has archived shows with a wired connection to my Tivo Premiere XL. I have the PC set to go into sleep mode after a while

It is a generally bad practice to ever sleep a server.

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(saving the Earth -you're welcome)

Not so much. Depending on the program requirements, a dedicated server can use as little as 10W, especially for something like pyTivo serving native files.

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I'm using Tivo desktop

Bad move.

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But I'm curious if there's any way to not have to restart the Tivo server after sleep mode on the PC for it to show up in my Now Playing list.

Simple solution: Use neither sleep mode nor TiVo Desktop.

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Insults?

Well, OK, if you insist...
You're ugly, and your mama dresses you funny.

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BTW - I've tried alternatives, and Tivo Desktop is the best software for me

I find that impossible to believe. TDT is such a lousy, badly broken program, I cannot imagine it being best under any circumstances. Not to put too fine a point on it, but you just yourself told us all it isn't meeting your needs.

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- so kmttg is not a solution.

'Not surprising, since kmttg does not handle the functionality you seek, at all. Kmttg is a TTG utility. You are talking about GoBack functionality, which is not what kmttg does.

Lately I run pyTivo on an old SSD netbook, with two large external USB drives for storage. The drives sleep most of the time, while the server stays up.

The TiVos are very finicky about recognizing servers on the network. There's probably no chance to do it the way you want, sorry. Although perhaps you could try using the "Manually add a server" function on the TiVos, and giving up auto-recognition?

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